Medicated mouthpiece-connector.



C. M. ANDRES.

MEDICATED MoUTHPlEcE CONNECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 8, 1913- Patented June 15, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CHARLES M. ANDRES, OF ALBANY, NEVI YORK, ASSIGNSR F @NE-HALF TG ABRAHAM SOLOMA'N, OF ALBANY, NEW' 'RESL MEDICATED MOUTHPECE-CGNNEC'ER.

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Tp all whom t may concern i Be it known that I, CHARLES M. ANDRES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Medicated Mouthpiece-Connectors, of which the ollowing is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to sanitary telephone mouth-pieces and more particularly to that class which provides the mouth-piece with a medicated cover for the opening of the same.

The object of this invention is to provide adevice of the kind described which can be quickly and easily placed upon the mouthpiece or taken from the same.

A still further object of this invention is the production of a paper or cloth guiding means formed from a single sheet of material.

'i still further object of this invention is the production or" a device of the kind described which is simple in construction, elticient in operation, and consists of the minimum number of parts.

With these and other objects in view this invention consists of certain novel combinations, constructions and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

ln the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the roller-supporting and paper-guiding frame of this device. F ig. 2 is a front elevation of a piece of the mouth-piece of a telephone with the improved device thereon. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the mouth-piece of a telephone with the improved device shown in section. Fig. 4 is a section taken through a portion of the body of this device showing one of the spring arms in plan.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, this device consists of a roller-.supporting member and paper-guiding means formed from a single blank of material.- The body of this blank is designated by the numeral 10, and has an enlarged opening 11 formed therein, by which the device is secured to the mouth-piece of a telephone. Bent at right-angles to the body 10, on its longitudinal edges, are flanges 12 having longitudinally-extending slots 13 adjacent the outer face of the body lO. Bent at rightiiatented June 1915.

angles to the body 10, on its upper and lower edges, are iianges lil that terminate, in rearwardly-extending spring-arms 15 having the feet 16 positioned at right-angles thereto at their end. The members 1G of the upper spring-arm 15 are provided with openings 17 and the member 16 of the lower springarm is provided with a spiral-shaped groove 18 terminating in an enlarged aperture 19 that is in alinement with the apertures 17 of the member 16 of the upper spring-arm. Positioned in these alined openings 17 and 19 are journal pins 20 of the rollers 21. These rollers 21 carry a medicated paper or cloth 22 and the same passes through the alined slots 18 in the longitudinally-extending flanges 12, thus covering the opening of the mouth-piece and by the paper or cloth engaging the mouthpiece at its outer edge,

the device is held securely upon the mouthpiece. An operating lrey 223 is provided on the lower journal pin of one of the rollers 21 so as to facilitate the rotation of said roller, thereby drawing the medicated cloth or paper through the slots 13 and over the opening in the mouth-piece.

It will thus be seen, from the foregoing description, a sanitary mouth-piece coverinhas been provided, which, with the exception ot the rollers, is formed from a blank sheet of material. The device is held securely upon the mouth-piece by means of the rollers being fastened to the rear ot the outer edge of the mouth-piece and the paper or cloth passingthrough the slots 13 in the longitudinally-extending flanges 12. This paper or cloth will not become loose because of the spring-arms 15 being in engagement with the shoulder formed on the ends of the rollers 21.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of this invention without departing from thespirit of the invention. It is, therefore, not wished to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is wished to include all such as probably come within the scope claimed.

What is claimed is:

vAs a new article of manufacture a mouthlll@ wardly of said body and adapted to rest upon the edge of lthe mouthpiece of a telephone whereby said body Will be supported7 paper carrying rollers carried by said rear- Wardly extending arms, and a disinfeeting sheet carried by said rollers and passing over said opening in said body for assisting l5 in holding said body upon a mouth-piece of a telephone.

ln testimony whereof I hereunto aiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES M. ANDRES.

Witnesses ROBERT NNAL, HARRY D. NOUM.

@fopes of this patent may' "ne obtained for live cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patente, Washington, D. 1U. 

